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Help support Christian&his family beat Leukemia!

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Hi, my name is Erika, my husband Adrean and I are friends of Christian and Sam. Adrean and Christian work closely together as K9 handlers for KDPS, Christian is also a veteran who served for the United States Marines and last week after Christian’s family(his wife, Sam who is due with their second little boy in May, and their young son) all fell ill with the stomach flu, everyone else recovered but he stayed very sick. Fast forward a couple days later, Sam took Christian to urgent care because he was not getting better. They drew some lab work and thought he might just have mono, sent them home and said they would be in contact soon with the results. It wasn’t much longer they were home that they got a call and were told to immediately go to the ER, where they ran more test and as a result, they diagnosed Christian with Leukemia. He was then sent directly to Spectrum in Grand Rapids where they did more test and confirmed that he has T Cell ALL Acute Leukemia which is a rare cancer of the blood. It is very aggressive, however, Christian is young and otherwise healthy, they are hopeful that if they act fast and aggressively in response to this diagnosis he can beat this. As Sam has said herself “We will beat this. There is just NO other option.”

Christian is currently in GR being treated with some pretty potent Chemo. Sam is not allowed to stay the night, so she is traveling to and from daily to be with him and to also be home to take care of their son and their home. Sam’s only focus and worry should be that of Christian right now and getting him healthy and back to doing all the things he loves.

I have created this platform knowing they have an army of people behind them willing and wanting to help ease their load in any way possible. With all the added costs of travel and treatment, I am hopeful we can all come together and take care of this family. A family who would truly do anything for anyone else. If you know Christian and Sam, you know friendship and love. I also know they will not ask for help themselves which is why I have taken it upon myself to give them the help they soooo deserve and frankly, need.

If you’re unable to donate-please just add their family to your prayers and thoughts and feel free to share this post. <3
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Erika Cole
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Kalamazoo, MI
Samantha Smith
Beneficiary

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